Germans take to the streets for Carnival of Cultures

Hundreds of thousands of spectators attend the annual Berlin Carnival of
Cultures, a street parade of the German capital's ethnic minorities, with
some 4,700 members from 80 communities celebrating the city's cultural
diversity.

5:10PM BST 27 May 2012

Police were unable to say how many spectators lined the street of the city's ethnically diverse Kreuzberg district but organisers had expected up to one million people.

According to the organisers, there were 68 floats with participants from 70 countries performing music, dance and acrobatics in colourful costumes.

"It's always very beautiful," said spectator Gundula Geschke who came for the third time to watch.

"Once it was really nice and last year, it was nothing too special. This year I can't say yet because we only just got here," Ms Geschke.

Reveller Sebastian Ebel, dressed in a blue fantasy costume, said "it's fantastic, we have a part of Brazil here and we live the Carnival of Cultures. We are having fun, the weather is beautiful and we're enjoying the day."